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Re:LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack by mike_hearn on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:29AM (#16071004)
Not quite - lots of "serious" applications these days are written to target JIT compilers, which would be capable of switching retpoline on and off depending on need.
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Re:LLVM patch to fix half of Spectre attack by CmdDot on Thursday January 04, 2018 @10:35AM (#16071069)
Funnily enough, I ended up not including a PS starting with "A sufficiently smart JIT, however..." ;)
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